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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1935.

HONGKONG'S AERIAL

FUTURE

NOTES OF THE DAY

RAY POWER

JUNE 12,

1935.

UNMIXED BLESSING OF CO-EDUCATION

By MARGARET LANE

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young

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The Very Idea!

A PAT ON THE BACK

By Eddie Kelly, Spine Expert.

Hello, children! Moot

your Uncle Eddle, back on the job again, completely exhausted and broke to the wide. We success- fully evaded writing for the colum

for over

three months, but the Editor saw US

us in state of

to pró-

of atupor and got us to miso a weekly article before wa had

recovered. Before we go any further, let us pay a compliment to the Telegraph staff which, by working day and night, snatching a mouthful of food when it working until It fell exhausted. under its typewriter by sheer grit. perseverance, and going without a shave, managed, with the aid of a miracle, to carry on during our absence.

Not for the first time reporta the are being circulated, with usual air of mystery, about the invention or application of a ray

T this time of year when the who has come rather late from a by which it will be possible to shut schools have just embarked negregated school, and has grown off running motors at a long dia on their summer term and a new up thus far in a cloistered at. tance. The coupling of the latest Achool year looms at the end of it,mosphere, very different from the report with the name of Marconi the subject of co-education comes large-scale family life lived in a

up for discussion in most house-co-educational school. makes it the more arresting: the holds where there

The notion that boys should bo wireless wizard is popularly sup-children whose school careor has posed to succeed in all his ex-not yet been decisively mapped out brought up in an undilutedly male atmosphere is, to my mind, not a ploitations of the possibilities of for them.

And it is a fact that in nine very civilised one. In good wireless, Germany is also said to households out of ten whoro co-educational schools the staff is be in possession of the mysterious education is talked over na a equally made up of men and wo- ray apparatus, and doubtless the possibility, it is dismissed sooner men; the boys have their other leading Powers have been rather than later as "dangerous," games and the girls theira, except looking into it. What a comment "cranky," or "not the sort of thing in sports whore they can be fairly ane wants to try out on one's own matched together, and the agonis- would it be on the vanity of com-

children,"

ing shyness which at leaving ago petitive armaments if, as soon as

This is all the more surprising marks the English public-school ABOUT the only time Hongkong people don't the nations had provided them when you remember that a very boy in the presence of women is a selven with thousands of war nero-large number of men and women thing from which both boys and like back-patting is when planes, It was discovered that, with In this country have been trained girls are mercifully free.

It is not long ago that a boy of they're sunburnt. the greatest of caso, by the mani-under a system of co-education, at

18, fresh from his last term at a

It was through back-pat- pulation of something In the least in their carllest years.

Last week the opening of the public school, confided to me in a nature of an invisible searchlight, summer term was marked with, paroxysm of shyness that he would ting that we got landed into

among other things, a debate in willingly have foregone all the so- this job again.

You know the sort of thing

The nearer the

people's

80 many

the moment.

But.

the 011

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famous

"Hello, Eddie, old boy, hellof,

are your

they could, every one of them, be put out of action as soon as they London between doctors and edu-called advantages of a

subject of public school for the sake--if he tried to fulfil the destructive pur cattoniats pose of their being! Whether whether boys and girls were better had had the choice of a mixed-

or worse for being educated in school education. Ils shyness in we mean: the motor-disabling ray has yet

each other's company.

the presence of women was, he ad- reached the practical stage only The debate attracted some of co-mitted, "absolute torture," and he

him says the Editor, Where have the privileged experts and the education's most ardent auppor-realised that it might take

you been. Don't you know that Governments for which they are ters, but it also brought some of several years to get over it.

dozens of people have been writ- to light. working may know, but the weapons bitterest opponents

Many educationists and parents There is something patheticallying in to me, wondering when does not appear to be beyond the believe that children grow up far unnatural about any boy or girl you're going to write for the borders of scientific possibility. more safely and successfully if the who finds it agonising to have in Very Idea' again?"

From then on, it's only a ques- By transferring the balance of other sex is encountered only in be on friendly terms with young

people of the opposite sex.

tion of time. If we don't fall for power to the defence it might go the holidnys.

Parents who belleve only in the first paragraph he continues: far to deprive the air menace of

I had an illuminating conversa-segregated education cheerfully

"I was only saying to the Manag its terrors. But in the meantime it would be wise to receive with tion a few days ago with the head-plunge their children at 18 into the ing Director the other day that mistress (there is a headmaster as very mixed and disturbing atmos what this Colony needs is more caution the high-flown reports that well) of a large co-educational pheres of business or university humour. He said to me, "Now, if are coming from the Continent. school in London which has been life and expect them to keep their only we could find Eddie Kelly"

By this time you capitulate. ray apparatus is running with conspicuous success heads. They sometimes confer

"Well, Chief," you say, "If that's brought to perfection, the less like. and a conspicuous absence of in private, however, to a certain

fuss since the late nineties. It was feeling of apprehension; they all how it is,... Anyway, we've al- ly may its sponsors be to talk about one of the angs she said that set know sudden freedom to be a dan-ways- had an hankering to re-join it. They will probably prefer to the seal on my growing convic-gerous thing, and that their sons the Telegraph. The first thing we keep it as a neat little surprise for tion-a conviction that germinated and daughters are suddenly free rend every afternoon the next war that seems to be with my first visit to a school of In the face of disturbing elements brilliant editorial articles engaging

this kind several years ago, when of which they have had no exper- and so on, ad infinitum. thoughts at

Anyway, when we came to, and I felt for the first time the won-ience before.

A hundred years from now, per began to remember something derfully sane, keen youthful at- before then means may be found mosphere of these places that for haps, the sane, uncomplicated, about having promised to contri- to frustrate the ray and give the boys and girls to be brought up easy-mannered children of our co-bute an article every Wednesday A good point is made by a cor- aeroplane again the upper hand. together is the happiest and most educational schools will have sent we didn't believe it. Why, we middle- respondent who writes us to-day There is no finality in this desper-natural system of child education. four generations of their descend asked ourself, should a

"We believe," she said-and the ants through the same simple and ageing journalist who has troubles regarding the suggestion that ate business.

two hundred children rowdily pre civilised upbringing that they enough with his own mirthless life active steps should be taken to

occupied in the playing-fields be-themselves have had. bind her were a noisy and living place Hongkong on the map WASTEFUL' AIR SERVICE

sign of her belief-"that the best aerially by attracting aviation

possible foundation for a humane Attention has already been life is for a child to rub shoulders services, irrespective of

ma-

drawn to the ridiculously un-with other young people of both tionality, to the Colony. It is economic condition of commercial sexes and all ages." argued that inasmuch as Hong- aviation in Europe. Kays a Home In this age, when the public kong would welcome the eventual contemporary. It is another ex-schools have long been suspect as covers made of fabric. These cer--idyseran-back-patters. You linking up of the Kowloon-Can- ample of the exclusiveness of the an adequate preparation for life, tainly give the necessary degree of could have knocked us over with ton Railway with the Canton-nations. They insist-even

and an ability to mix well with all protection, but they tend to be the Hankow line, no objection should smallest and the most

kinds of men and women is far come shabby unless looked after (1) a fenther; (2) a plece of lead poverty-more valuable than

pipe; (3) a sudden jerk of the properly.

chair after slyly asking us to sit be offered to establishing a link stricken of them-on having their sclousness, I find it difficult to see By the way, the best form of down; or (4)-but if you think with China's aviation services, own military establishments, on how any sensible person can dis- fabric cover is that with a hole we're going to sit here and think since both the one and the other keeping others out of "their trade agree with her.

---through which the hub cap pro-up methods for you- to-use - In-

trudes; the advantage is that the knocking us over, you're crazy, would be to the mutual benefit and commerce, in brief, on living

Those who disapprove of co-

cover can he fitted before the wheel

Anyway, you have no idea how of China and this Colony. In unto themselves. They are doing education are afraid of two things, is placed in position.

amazed we were to learn that we deed, the further the possibilities the same with their aviation, and They are afraid of some romantic If the cover is very dirty it can were writing for the "Very Idea" being formed at be washed with warm soapy water. --and especially to find that we SENSEISSSSSS are explored, the firmer does the at ruinous cost. A report on the attachment

conviction grow that Hongkong subject issued from the offices of school "years before they need One of the best polishing mediums had alrendy finished two-thirds of as well as China have everything the League of Nations shows in think about that kind of thing." is ordinary boot polish. Black it without once rushing out for a to gain by co-operation, as far! detail how great are the losses in- and, in the case of boys, they are polish for black covers, brown for reviver. It only goes to show that afraid their sons might miss some- brown, or white for more delicate if you put your shoulder to the curred by subsidising services

thing rather manly and fine by not shades.

wheel you'll probably get your coat. as possible, in transportation

There are, however, special dirty and not help the wheel services. So far as this Colony which do not pay and have little being brought up entirely in the

polishes obtainable In either. is concerned, it is clear that a prospect of ever paying. In three society of other boys and under fabric

numerous colours, and one of these But what about Hongkong back- years under survey European tax- men's authority,

It is a fact that the child who may be used. A little attention pattern? Keep your shirt on, and great future would be assured If, payers have been drained of lities which we are able to offer, that purpose. Holland, Finland pining romanticism for one of improve the whole appearance of presently. After all we've got to supplementing the shipping faci- twenty-seven millions sterling for in a co-educational school develops now and again, as suggested, will we'll be getting to the real meat

the other sex is nearly always one the ear.

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we enjoyed direct contact with Great Britain, and Denmark fare China's aerial and railway sys- best; that is, lose least. Britain tems; whilst the advantages to has still about one-third of the China from such contacts are way, to go to reach financial in-, equally obvious. If it is a ques-dependence. France and Germany tion of bargaining, something are still far behind, and the posi- might be done along the lines of tion of Italy is pitiable; it has not giving China aerial landing yet gone one-tenth of the way to

freedom from subsidies. rights here in return for an Longue reporter laments that there undertaking to link up the two is not even an attempt to treat railways named. The point is at aviation as a public utility service. any rate worthy of considera- It seems to be a matter of pride tion, although the case for open- and prestige or prospective mill- ing the Colony to all regular tary need, and petty restrictions commercial aviation services are in force which make develop- rests on the point that there is ment impossible. He thinks that international no logical reason why aviation nothing short of should be treated on a different footing from shipping. Cir- eumstances have arisen in recent years indienting that this Colony

control will ease the burden and make aviation a real public utility.

sons, it is to be hoped that efforts will have to readjust itself to will be made to impress on the changing conditions; that, if it Imperial Government and the is to maintain its position, it will local authorities the necessity of have to adapt itself to these new taking a brandminded view of trends. This suggests the need the situation. We have been of our keeping pace with the constantly assured that both times. In this connection we Governments are anxious that have to look ahead to the day Hongkong should be brought in-' when aviation will play an in- to aerial contact with the out- creasingly important part in side world. In view of the!

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"Oh, it's just a little something mothar is trying to interest me in. She calls them paper dolls."

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វា

But this morning, en walking into the Telegraph office, we made natonishing discovery. Why, there we were-us, of all people- crouched in front of a typewriter, with a bottle of beer by our side, writing about Hongkong doseryn

write a thousand words to fill In this column.

. It is some time since back- patting started in Hongkong. To be frank-and you do want us to you?-there be frank, don't

or

wouldn't have been any back patting if someone hadn't found out that this was the only way to ket promotion,, that your chances of getting an O.B.E. In the next Honours list were pretty slim unless you had back-patted at least six officials during the year. Back-putting was always done on the back, in the middle of which Is the spine, which is a long, wobbly bone with your head set on one end and your set on the other.

French ladies employ an entirely different method, which is to kick a man about three inches above the belt in the front, and is another way of proving that the way to a man's heart 18 through his stomach.

When back-patting first started, the back-patters made the Im- that their portant discovery thoughts could be kept secret. That is why all back-patters cross their fingers when they're back- patting, the Hongkong variety go: ing something like this:

Hof course, The Hon. Mr. Blah: gentlemen, if it had not been for the tremendous

Amount of time energy our friend, Mr. Fish Faco, had put into this movement, the suCCESS. already regiatored would never have been attained-I've got to give this blighter a pat on the back, other- wise he'd drop the job,"

and

Mr. Fish Face: "My Hon, friend, Str. Blah, has paid me the com pliment of saying that I have been largely responsible for the success of this movement. I am afraid, how- ever, that he is unduly modoat about (Continued on Page 6.)